A pickup truck, a stop sign and two people suffered damage from a two vehicle accident Wednesday, March 26 east of Dell Rapids. / Joe Sneve / Dell Rapids Tribune

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Joe Sneve and Mark Walker

Two people were hospitalized last week after a pickup ran a stop sign and collided with another vehicle before rolling into the ditch.

The 55-year-old driver of a Chevy pickup was headed north at 8:25 a.m. the morning of Wednesday, March 26 on 479th Avenue east of Dell Rapids. He ran the stop sign at the Jasper Road intersection, striking a Chrysler Lebaron headed west toward Dell Rapids, said Sgt. Preston Evans of the Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office.

The collision caused the truck to roll into a ditch. The driver and his female passenger were taken to a Dell Rapids hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The 16-year-old driver of the Chrysler was not injured. The driver of the truck was cited for failure to obey a stop sign.

One hospitalized in two-car wreck Friday

Emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle accident Friday morning north of Dell Rapids that sent one person to the hospital.

A pickup truck pulling a trailer was headed north on 474th Avenue – also referred to as Old 77 highway – around 11 a.m. when a white car traveling east on 244th Street pulled out in front of the truck.

"The passenger car traveling east on the gravel stopped at the stop sign, but according to the other driver, pulled right out in front of him and got t-boned," said Sgt. Pete Jaros with the Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office.

Te driver of the white car was transported to a Sioux Falls hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the truck walked away from the accident.